... hmmm, I am reading so much that I don't find the time to work on these pages...
Books That Shaped my Views
(they made my heart glow when I read them first)
More to come...
Thomas à Kempis,
The Imitation of Christ
Without compromise, full of heart
A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
Kung Fu Tse (Confucius),
Analects (ascii, 150K)
and
another [usually better] translation (html, 193K)
Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Plato, Apology (25K ...not yet the ideal address)
Francis Bacon,
Essays
``The example of God, teacheth the lesson truly: He sendeth his
rain, and maketh his sun to shine, upon the just and unjust;
but he doth not rain wealth, nor shine honor and virtues,
upon men equally''
Adolph Freiherr von Knigge, Über den Umgang mit Menschen
Blaise Pascal, Pensees
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
John Ruskin, Unto This Last
Bertrand Russell
Although I don't agree with his views of Christianity, I liked to read
his many books. For example,
The Metaphysician's Nightmare
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
A. Neumaier
Introduction to Numerical Analysis
Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge 2001
vii + 356 pp.
A.E. Brouwer, A.M. Cohen and A. Neumaier
Distance-Regular Graphs
Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, 3. Folge, Band 18
Springer Verlag, Berlin 1989
xvii + 495 pp.
A. Neumaier
Interval Methods for Systems of Equations
Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge 1990
xvi + 255 pp.
Arnold Neumaier (Arnold.Neumaier@univie.ac.at)